Another Google exec just left for one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley

Daniel Sturman, an 8-year Google executive who most recently was
a VP of engineering, has joined the data analytics firm Cloudera
as its VP of engineering on Monday.

The press release says Sturman will "lead all development
within the company, with the Apache Software community and with
Cloudera's 1,600+ global partners."

Cloudera is one of the largest companies in the fast-growing
field of data analytics, which means it helps companies make
sense of the massive amounts of data they're collecting every
day. Cloudera is still private, but has raised more
than $1.2 billion so far, and its latest valuation is rumored to
be around $4.8 billion.

It's one of several hot companies that uses a technology called
Apache Hadoop, which originally came out of Yahoo and is widely
used there, and was based on research that came out of Google.
Hortonworks, also based on Hadoop, had a $100 million IPO last
December and is currently worth over $1 billion.

Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly said in a statement, “The original design
concepts for Apache Hadoop and many of the ensuing innovative
analytic projects originate from Google. We are excited to have a
Google technology leader who understands modern architectures and
the art of turning data into insight take our platform to the
next level."

Sturman updated his LinkedIn
page but there's no description under his role at Cloudera.
At Google, Sturman was responsible for managing Google's compute
projects, including Google Compute Engine and Google App
Engine.

Sturman's move marks another big name departure from Google in
recent weeks. Earlier today, it was announced that
Neal Mohan, the ex-DoubleClick executive who was reportedly
paid $100 million by Google, would leave the company for Dropbox.
In March,
Google X executive Mary Lou Jepsen jumped ship to work at
Oculus, while
former VP of Google X Megan Smith also left last year to
become the next CTO of the United States.